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More steps in the evolution of continuous cellular automata with the same kind of rules as on the previous page. In order to remove the uniform stripes, the picture in the middle shows the difference between the gray level of each cell and its immediate neighbor. Note the presence of discrete localized structures even though the underlying rules for the system involve continuous gray levels.

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]